Slow Revolution
An excerpt from a lovely article about virmary written by Katie De Klee for Cluster Crafts. Read in full at Cluster-London.com
// Belarusian product designer Maryia Virshych works with porcelain to make delicate and refined decorative objects. She founded her studio Virmary in 2020 and makes limited edition, hand-built objects.
Her founding principle with Virmary is that good things take time and that there must be beauty and value in the material things we surround ourselves with.
“I see slow craft as a rebellion against the cult of speed, productivity and efficiency,” she says. “Long processes that do not allow for rush or cutting corners.”
The collection that forms part of the Cluster Crafts exhibition is called Being in Time and is inspired by our complicated relationship with fast consumerism.
“I want to escape the seasonality of things and refuse to be forced to constantly create new objects simply for the sake of newness. The pieces slowly evolve and transform, each edition resembling its predecessor while also differing from it.”
Virshych works predominantly with porcelain, taking pleasure in the magical translucent quality it has that allows her objects to seem as though they glow from the inside. She also occasionally introduces elements of brass, golden mirror and natural flax rope to give the pieces a softness and added layer of texture. //
“I believe that objects have this power about them, to channel some of the energy and emotion of how they were made. And when they are made by hand the emotion is catalytic.”
